1.How many sports are there in the video?
2.What are they?
There are eight.
swimming , running , skiing , gymnastics
,basketball ,
football ,
volleyball . table tennis ,
Do you know ?1.The Olympic flame was passed ( 传递) from Greece to China from March 24, 2008.
2.The Olympic flag is five-ring flag ( 五环旗 )
3.The 2008 Olympic mascots ( 吉祥物 ) : Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan,Yingying, Nini
Listen and number the sports as you hear them :
basketball cycling gymnastics running skiing table tennis
5.1
.
2.3.
4.
6.
3.Gymnastics is difficult.
2.Basketball is exciting.
1.Table tennis is popular.
(easy)
(unpopular)
(boring)
Match the words in Box 1 with the opposite( 反义的 ) words in Box
2
boring cheap easy safe tiring unpopular
dangerous difficult exciting expensive popular relaxing
dangerous -- safedifficult -- easyexciting -- boringexpensive -- cheapcomfortable-uncomfortable popular -- unpopularrelaxing -- tiring
Read the opposites:
B: Chinese people are very good at gymnastics. Do you like gymnastics, Daming?D: Yes, I do. But Chinese people are good at table tennis , too, and table tennis is more popular than gymnastics.B: I love gymnastics. I think it's more exciting than table tennis. What Olympic sports do you like?
be good at... 擅长Listen and read:
D: Basketball is my favourite sport, but I also like running.B: Oh, no, running is more boring than basketball. I also like cycling. Cycling is more relaxing than running.D: No, it isn't. I think cycling is more tiring than running. And do you like skiing?B: Yes, I do. But it’s more dangerous than running and cycling .
Gymnastics Basketball Running Cycling
Daming
Betty
Listen again. Check the sports Daming and Betty like :
Practice: Make sentences ( 造句 ) football, tiring, swimmingrunning, popular, gymnasticscycling, dangerous, runninggymnastics, exciting, table tennis
running, boring, basketballe.g. Swimming is more difficult than running .
1. 我擅长打乒乓球。I __________ playing table tennis.
2. 他擅长弹钢琴He ________________ the piano.
3. 我们将有一个令人激动的假期 .We will have __________holiday.
am good at
is good at playing
an exciting
4. 篮球比足球更放松。Basketball is_________________football.
5. 体操比骑车更激动人心 .Gymnastics is ________________ cycling.
more relaxing than
more exciting than
Talk about the sports you like. e.g.
A: I like gymnastics. It’s more
exciting than table tennis, and
it’s more difficult than running.
B: I like ……